Pronunciation of the English word islands.
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1. | Japan consists of four main islands and many other smaller islands. | |
2. | Japan consists of four major islands and over 3,000 small islands, and is about equal to California in area. | |
3. | The U.S. Pacific Islands region includes more than 2,000 islands spanning millions of square miles of ocean. Rising air and ocean temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, changing frequencies and intensities of storms and drought, decreasing streamflows, rising sea levels, and changing ocean chemistry will threaten the sustainability of globally important and diverse ecosystems as well as local communities, livelihoods, and cultures. | |
4. | During the morning of March 20, 2015, a total solar eclipse will be visible from the Faroe Islands, located northwest of Scotland, and the Svalbard Islands, located east of Greenland. | |
5. | Barrier islands are long, sandy islands near the coast. | |
6. | The name Algeria comes from "Al-Jazair" which means "islands" in Arabic. The country is named after its capital city which, in turn, was named after four little islands that were located a few dozens of yards off the coast of the old city of Algiers. It was the Berber dynasty of the Zirids that made Algiers the capital of their kingdom in the 10th century AD. | |
7. | Islands rely on reeds, just as reeds rely on islands. | |
8. | British settlement of the islands began in 1647; the islands became a colony in 1783. | |
9. | In the Carteret Islands, near Papua New Guinea, some people have already had to leave their homes because the seawater is washing around their houses. | |
10. | What animals inhabit those islands? |